EL SEGUNDO, Calif., June 27, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- The Team JCA
partnership led by Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) and EADS CASA North America
is contesting the Joint Cargo Aircraft selection process in a protest filed
June 22 with the Government Accountability Office.
"Following a 'debrief' from the U.S. Army, Team JCA carefully
considered the Army's selection process and weighed the merits and
challenges of an award protest," said Jon Jones, president of Raytheon
Space and Airborne Systems. "We decided that a protest was necessary based
on crucial portions of our proposal that were either incorrectly measured
or not considered during the source selection process.
"We took this action to understand what it takes to meet the needs of
our customer and to better support our nation's warfighters," Jones said.
Team JCA is offering the EADS CASA C-295 military transport for the JCA
requirement. The protest centers on three key points:
-- The JCA source selection board rated Team JCA equal to its competitor
on all non-price factors in its criteria, including technical,
logistics, management/production and past performance.
-- Raytheon beat its competitor's price by more than 15 percent
-- There were errors in the specific evaluation of data and the
application of the evaluation criteria
"By the best value criteria in the JCA request for proposals, we are
convinced that Raytheon has the best value solution," Jones said.
In military service with coalition partners worldwide, the C-295 is
completing its seventh year of JCA-type missions with the armed services of
Spain, Poland, Algeria, Jordan, Brazil, Portugal and Finland. EADS CASA has
55 aircraft on order, 32 of which have already been delivered.
Raytheon Company, with 2006 sales of $20.3 billion, is a technology
leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government
markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 85
years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems
integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and
command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a
broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham,
Mass., Raytheon employs 73,000 people worldwide.
Contact:
Lorenzo Cortes
310.503.3089 (mobile)
Lorenzo_R_Cortes@raytheon.com
SOURCE Raytheon Company
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CONTACT:
Lorenzo Cortes of Raytheon Company,
+1-310-503-3089 (mobile), Lorenzo_R_Cortes@raytheon.com
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